Quality & Regulatory

A Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) study showed insufficient documentation caused the most improper payments for facet joint injections,...Read More »

Since the advent of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, CDI professionals have known that physician copy and paste errors pose a threat to...Read More »

Editor’s note: Over the coming weeks leading up to the conference, we’ll take some time to introduce members to a...Read More »

Q: Can coders change the principal diagnosis assignment without querying the physician?

A: Once the...Read More »

Intensive care units are expensive, invasive, and supposed to be reserved for the sickest hospital patients, but more than half the time, they're...Read More »

Even after Medicare officials agreed that seniors cannot be denied...Read More »

Editor’s Note: Over the comings weeks, we’ll take some time to introduce members to a few of this year’s ACDIS...Read More »

Healthcare providers need to dedicate resources to increasing case-mix index, improving discharge disposition code accuracy, reducing readmission...Read More »

CMS recently updated its Recovery Audit program webpages with names of each new contractor, respective regions of responsibility, with links for...Read More »

HCPro is currently seeking speakers to present at the 2017 Revenue Integrity Symposium (RIS), to be held October 21–22, 2017, in Nashville,...Read More »